Latest Job Opportunities at Airtel, 1st August, 2018

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited), a leading mobile telecommunication services provider in Nigeria and a member of Airtel Africa Group, is committed to providing innovative, exciting, affordable and quality mobile services to Nigerians, giving them the freedom to communicate, rise above their daily challenges and drive economic and social development.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise Implementation Engineer
Location: Nigeria

Job Description
Looking for a suitable candidate to fill the role of Implementation Engineer in our Enterprise Business Function.the successful candidate will be responsible for;

• Provides situational reports relating to the progress of each assign project.
• Maintains documentation of project related detail for effective tracking of designs for various customer solutions
• Liaises with IP Team to ensure service activations are finalized and perform quality checks to assure first-time customer service acceptance
• Delivering new service requests from the sales pipeline to meet revenue targets for the business unit.
• Plans and coordinates the delivery of new service activation requests from the sales pipeline through to service acceptance and billing.
• Deliver Minimum of 40 new circuits per week and or quantities required to meet revenue targets set for the fiscal year.
• Liaise with cross functional teams, to manage and coordinate implementation of agreed tasks within defined timelines.

IP Network/ MPLS project support:

• Demonstrates a good understanding of basic IP requirements
• Produces and updates topology diagrams for newly delivered projects.
• Ensures a timely delivery of projects
• Engages in nominated IP related projects and supports the migration of key services to the MPLS backbone when required.

Process Optimisation and SLA fulfilment:

• Keeps proper project records on all aspects of the project delivery.
• Manage and co-ordinate support and service engineers in attending to customers’ service requests and resolving the same within SLA targets with the aim of meeting Key Performance Indices (KPIs).
• Supports the 4-way reconciliation process to ensure accurate link count, billing accuracy and effective inventory management
• Continuously works with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate business processes and instigate process improvements
• Ensures relevant documentation is maintained and keeps the service catalogue updated with project related records.
• Ensures the process of solutions delivery is optimized from hardware dispatch through to installation, integration, testing and operational handover.

Ensure Network Availability of 99.5% and <5% error rate on rejected delivered links due to poor project delivery:

• Contribute to achieving 99.5% availability by delivering new service requests/links with a minimum error rate and at acceptable sign off margins.
• Supports the IP operations team in troubleshooting and fixing any new links which have been rejected by customers due to poor quality or error in delivery.

Education and Work Experience

• At least 5 years post National Service work experience.
• PMP or Prince2 project management methodology will be an advantage
• CCNA also an advantage
• ITIL v3 also an advantage
• Must have experience in managing telecom projects, Business Development and Client relations.
• Working knowledge of project management best practices
• At least five (2) years’ experience in a project management role in Telecoms
• A B.Eng. / B.Sc./B.Tech. other first Degrees in relevant disciplines.
• MBA will be an added advantage

Skills critical to the role:

• Influencing
• Negotiation
• Analytical
• Project Management
• Change Management

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

Note: Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to notify unsuccessful applicants. If you have not been notified of the outcome of your application within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.